Originally posted by feldon23 There are not 250 million people watching TV with rabbit ears. Something like 25% have a TV that depends on OTA and something like 10% have their primary TV depending on OTA. For those people, a $30-50 adapter should be made available to tune in ATSC.

75% of the population has cable/satellite.

Periodically, articles are quoted at AVS Forum with the statistics. IIRC, they don't calculate how many people have OTA, but they have said that 15% have OTA only, and 85% have cable/satellite; of course some of the 85% also have OTA, in addition to the 15%.

Eh, ok. Something I'd set up to do overnight then... switch to component, play the show through to the vrc, then back to DVI for day to day viewing. Not terribly convenient. I'd prefer the Voom method of all outputs active at once, but oh well.

Originally posted by feldon23 Probably 3 menus deep. Why? How often would you want to do this?

Whenever she walks from the master bedroom to the kitchen or vice versa.

Right now the HD-capable 17" LCD in the kitchen can view any of three TiVos (home theater, MBR, her office). The MBR TiVo is used the most — it's a 2-tuner DirecTV model which I intend to replace with the new HDTV TiVo. The existing MBR feed to the kitchen is analog NTSC, and I would have been happy to keep it that way were it not for the lack of concurrent composite/S-video in the new TiVo. So I was planning to upgrade the feed to the kitchen to component video, whilst using the DVI for the (planned) new 32" LCD in the MBR itself.

I guess I just assumed that both the component and DVI were always active, even though the NTSC outputs are not. (After all, they are both the same high def resolution.) That is, until I was shocked by your post earlier today ...

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not sure if we've talked about this yet but, do u guys think the HD-dvr250 will output any format regardless of the format recorded? In other words, will it upconvert a 480i recording to 720p or 1080i ?

Originally posted by Tom in OH not sure if we've talked about this yet but, do u guys think the HD-dvr250 will output any format regardless of the format recorded? In other words, will it upconvert a 480i recording to 720p or 1080i ?

Yes. And yes, it's already been talked about.

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